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Karen is the author of Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career. For twelve years, Karen Steede-Terry operated her own business in Austin, Texas. She built a successful training practice in the high-tech fields of GPS (Global Positioning Systems) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems). She is consistently ranked as a "Top 5" instructor in these areas. As a self-employed professional, many women (and some men) approached Karen, wanting to learn how to start their own businesses. Almost all of the women, many of them new moms, sought a flexible or part-time career they could cultivate while raising a family. Karen would offer advice and informally coach them. This experience combined with her collective knowledge, insight, and experience, led her to write her award-winning second book, Full-Time Woman, Part-Time Career. As a coach, Karen brings diverse life experiences, wisdom and coaching tools - to guide you. Karen is a Certified Life Coach (CLC).

Are you a busy executive who needs more sources of positive energy? The single most important thing you can do to increase your level of health, wealth, and success in your life is to increase your level of happiness. Marci Shimoff, star of The Secret Video and the undisputed expert on the Law of Attraction, shows you how happiness is the shortcut to anything. Tune into Marci to hear about her book "Happy for No Reason" and learn the remarkable secrets to her seven-step process to easily and systematically raise your everyday level of happiness.

Jane Buckingham is a self made Life Coach for the Modern Girl. She appears regularly on the airwaves and in print. In her new book, "The Modern Girl's Guide to Sticky Situations," Jane gives welcome advice with warmth and humor at home or at work. What can you do if you sent an email you should have "deleted"? What if your cell phone gets wet or worse- the toilet? What should you do if your date or co-worker shows up drunk? When should you share a big secret with someone new? Jane's award winning book answer these questions, and covers a wide range of other issues that may crop up, including problems relating to work, dating, romance, family relationships and beauty. Read an excerpt of her newest book at the GMA Library. Go to: abcnews/go.com/books/modern-girls-guide-to-sticky-situations-jane-buckingham. Join Jane Buckingham as she shares life's little secrets for daily success.

Today's show will feature the co-hosts, Dr. Cathy Greenberg and Dr. Relly Nadler sharing their expertise on leadership development. Together they have over 50 years of experience helping leaders and their teams become star performers. They have created the Xcel Institute to accelerate leadership development in your organization. Their mission is to meet the demands for leaders who can coach others to perform in the top 10% with high emotional intelligence. They will explain the benefits of the Institute for experienced and emerging leaders. Their collaboration brings leaders a handbook of cutting edge tools drawn from positive psychology, the science of happiness, emotional and social intelligence, executive coaching, neuroscience and years of work in the trenches with CEOs and top executives and their teams. Cathy and Relly will share leadership and coaching tools and strategies that they find useful for busy executives who want powerful tips to better lead their teams and themselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Her honors include a Faculty of the Year Award, Faculty Mentor of the Year Award, a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, and a million-dollar grant from National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) to conduct research on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness. Her book, The How of Happiness, was released in January, 2008 by Penguin Press and translated into 17 languages.

Phil Jones is known as "The Connector" because he is one of the country's best Professional Powerbrokers of deals, money and relationships. He leverages his vast field of influence and extensive contact base to bring a range of serious players together to get exceptional deals completed and outcomes banked for his clients that few others are able to achieve. His companies have completed over one billion dollars in real estate purchases and he is a Bestselling Author who has written seven books. A sought after public speaker who has taught over 100,000 people, Phil is considered a master of teaching business, marketing and real estate wealth accumulation and retention strategies. Featured on TV, radio, magazines and newspapers, Phil has also received hundreds of letters from students that credit his expertise, advice and education with earning them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Sharon Jordan-Evans is a pioneer in the field of employee retention and engagement. She serves as a prominent speaker for numerous conferences and works with Fortune 500 companies such as American Express, Boeing, Disney, Lockheed, Cheesecake Factory, Monster, MTV, PBS, Sony, and Universal Studios. She co-authored two Wall Street Journal bestsellers. The first, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, is the world's best-selling employee retention book and has been translated into 20 languages. The second, Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at Work, offers anyone who works easy-to-implement strategies for increasing job satisfaction. Love It, Don't Leave It has been translated into 15 languages. She also serves as a resource for a number of national media, including Business 2.0, Chief Executive, CIO, Harvard Management Update, Working Woman, Investor Business Daily, Business Week and the LA Times.

Today's show will feature the co-hosts, Dr. Cathy Greenberg and Dr. Relly Nadler sharing their expertise on leadership development. Together they have over 50 years of experience helping leaders and their teams become star performers. They have created the Xcel Institute to accelerate leadership development in your organization. Their mission is to meet the demands for leaders who can coach others to perform in the top 10% with high emotional intelligence. They will explain the benefits of the Institute for experienced and emerging leaders. Their collaboration brings leaders a handbook of cutting edge tools drawn from positive psychology, the science of happiness, emotional and social intelligence, executive coaching, neuroscience and years of work in the trenches with CEOs and top executives and their teams. Cathy and Relly will share leadership and coaching tools and strategies that they find useful for busy executives who want powerful tips to better lead their teams and themselves.

Phil Jones is known as "The Connector" because he is one of the country's best Professional Powerbrokers of deals, money and relationships. He leverages his vast field of influence and extensive contact base to bring a range of serious players together to get exceptional deals completed and outcomes banked for his clients that few others are able to achieve. His companies have completed over one billion dollars in real estate purchases and he is a Bestselling Author who has written seven books. A sought after public speaker who has taught over 100,000 people, Phil is considered a master of teaching business, marketing and real estate wealth accumulation and retention strategies. Featured on TV, radio, magazines and newspapers, Phil has also received hundreds of letters from students that credit his expertise, advice and education with earning them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Marcy Neumann is a registered nurse, spiritual minister, certified hypnotist, Reiki Master level teacher, dynamic speaker and author. She is the creator of CELLpH (Self) LOVE, a unique and cutting-edge 'self help', health and wellness program. In addition, in 2007, Marcy created her company, Heartlites Incorporated, which manufactures her award winning spiritual/personal development products, programs and educational materials based on the 'Law of Attraction' principles. These products truly are the 'Law of Attraction In Action' and are manifestation tools for empowerment and transformation. Having utilized these principles when she began her own business without any previous product development experience or business education, Marcy was able to bring 6 new products to market in 5 short months. Marcy now teaches these principles to others. Marcy has been a liaison between the physical and meta-physical worlds for over 30 years. Listen how she does it.